A little more lead-up to having Anders suddenly revealed as sitting in a hybrid-tub with control of parts of the ship would have helped, though, Mr. Show-Runner.

Galactica going out in style?

American Intern
A request: If you guys find the time, update us later with the number of folks who applied for the job, the number of them who were dismissed right away (you have to narrow the pool somehow, right?), and roughly how many were in contention toward the end.

Thanks. And thanks for catching the reference. "Silent Running" would be a cool film to remake now, with our present knowledge of climate change, the disappearing rainforests, etc. The only thing that sounded good about the Kee-noo remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is that the writers replaced the…

Don't worry, Cami's fine. She has made two wonderful robot friends and they're all helping Bruce Dern tend to the forests on the Botanical Cruiser.

She did, and subsequently had a relapse.

Baltar is certainly the most entertaining character on the show. And, as I've said elsewhere, it's amazing that they can get away with the comedic aspects of his character without disrupting the atmosphere of the show. Of course, a lot of those moments come from the fact that we know he's interacting with Six, and…

Wookiee - great point.

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Ya know, I almost posted that very same thing, Lord Clam.

Building an Episode
There's a fascinating interview with writers Weddle and Thompson over at the Chicago Tribune's website:

Watchtower and Its Meaning
Now that Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" has resurfaced, anyone care to guess why it was chosen? I understand that Moore apparently wanted to use it in a show for years - maybe even in Deep Space 9 - but…um…why?

I may have mistaken this, but it looked like Tigh was smoking self-rolled cigs. (Alge-based tobacco - why not? My Camels are mostly wood shavings anyway).

Alurin, I agree that they should have started spooling thing s back in rather than creating more tangents, and I never bought the Tigh-Caprica Six romance to begin with. Admittedly, they have sometimes impulsively created plot developments that they shouldn't have.

They've painted themselves into some corners, to be sure, but the make-it-up-as-you-go-along spirit is a strength of the show. Each new turn sets up a whole new bunch of possible threads. For instance, according to the commentaries, Helo in the miniseries wasn't written to be an ongoing character, but they liked the…

I think Moore says in his podcast that when they wrote the miniseries, they had no intention of making Boomer a Cylon, but they came up with it at the last minute as a cool cliff-hanger zinger to end with, and that they ran with it from that point on.

And the fact that the ship - the Enterprise, for gods sake - looked like a pregnant duck didn't help. Whoever designed that thing should have been laughed out of the room.

Some good stuff in TNG, I'm not denying that. But I still never found myself just having fun watching it. The character interaction was often clever and cute, and the Holodeck shows were a nice excuse to revisit the silly "hey, this alien planet looks just like Victorian London!" ideas, but I still don't think it…

If Total Recall was based on a short story, you could probably expand it in any way you wanted. Verhoeven's version was just one direction to take it - big and dumb and fun. A remake could be cool.

Your first point makes a lot of sense. Supposedly, Nick Meyer had virtually no exposure to TOS, and watched all the episodes before writing the script for Khan. Maybe his mind focused on these early episodes and he knew what he wanted to do with it.